Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic: A World-System perspective
This paper intends to provide an analytical framework to interpret China’s growing presence in the Arctic from the perspective of world-system theory. I have set up the analytical framework from the following four aspects. Firstly, China’s externalizing behavior in the Arctic region is governed by t...
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ftalborgunivojs:oai:dk.aau.aub.ojs:article/6641 2024-06-23T07:49:05+00:00 Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic: A World-System perspective Zheng, Xiaowen 2021-10-07 application/pdf https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/article/view/6641 https://doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1.6641 eng eng Aalborg University Open Publishing https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/article/view/6641/5757 https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/article/view/6641 doi:10.5278/jcir.v7i1.6641 Journal of China and International Relations; Årg. 7 Nr. 1 (2019): Journal of China and International Relations; 87-107 Journal of China and International Relations; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): Journal of China and International Relations; 87-107 2245-8921 10.5278/jcir.v7i1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftalborgunivojs https://doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1.664110.5278/jcir.v7i1 2024-06-03T09:38:21Z This paper intends to provide an analytical framework to interpret China’s growing presence in the Arctic from the perspective of world-system theory. I have set up the analytical framework from the following four aspects. Firstly, China’s externalizing behavior in the Arctic region is governed by the internalized law of value of the modern world-system, i.e., the endless accumulation of capital. Secondly, China has benefited and is still benefiting from the division of labor, with Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and most recently the Arctic serving as a relatively subordinated resource periphery. Thirdly, driven by a strong upward mobility, China has leapfrogged the periphery and semi-periphery and gained a semi-core position with an upward trend towards the core, by offering a favorable external environment to the Arctic (invitation to promote). Lastly, since the world-economy is currently in a Kondratieff B-phase, China, as an emerging global core power, is logically dedicated to the relocation of productive activity and the probability of alternative profitable outlets, where the Arctic is highly compatible. Keywords: China, Arctic, world-system theory, endless accumulation of capital, division of labor, upward mobility, Kondratieff B-phase Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Open Access Journals at Aalborg University Arctic |
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This paper intends to provide an analytical framework to interpret China’s growing presence in the Arctic from the perspective of world-system theory. I have set up the analytical framework from the following four aspects. Firstly, China’s externalizing behavior in the Arctic region is governed by the internalized law of value of the modern world-system, i.e., the endless accumulation of capital. Secondly, China has benefited and is still benefiting from the division of labor, with Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and most recently the Arctic serving as a relatively subordinated resource periphery. Thirdly, driven by a strong upward mobility, China has leapfrogged the periphery and semi-periphery and gained a semi-core position with an upward trend towards the core, by offering a favorable external environment to the Arctic (invitation to promote). Lastly, since the world-economy is currently in a Kondratieff B-phase, China, as an emerging global core power, is logically dedicated to the relocation of productive activity and the probability of alternative profitable outlets, where the Arctic is highly compatible. Keywords: China, Arctic, world-system theory, endless accumulation of capital, division of labor, upward mobility, Kondratieff B-phase |
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